thenley
Civil/Environmental
- Apr 11, 2006
- 6
I'm checking the design on a cantilevered retaining wall with equal quantities of steel at equal distances from each face (e.g. #6 bars at 12" o.c., centered 3.5" from each wall face). In looking through the analysis equations, since the steel areas are equal, a couple of quantities drop to zero, giving less flexural strength than if I were to ignore the compression steel. Is this right, or is there another way of going about this?